Trump Administration to Ban TikTok and WeChat From U.S. App Stores

The ban would have kept US service providers from working with the video-sharing app, and a US court hearing a suit by ByteDance effectively mooted the Thursday deadline imposed by Donald Trump for the sale of TikTok’s US operations.

A federal judge put the brakes on yet another aspect of President Trump's push to ban TikTok, but uncertainty still clouds the future of the viral video app in the U.S.

The decision grants TikTok a short-term reprieve, but the wildly popular app's fate still faces an extraordinary amount of uncertainty.

NEW YORK (AP) — Lawyers for TikTok pleaded with a U.S. federal judge on Sunday to delay the Trump Administration's ban of the popular video sharing program from app stores set to take effect at...

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge has approved a request from a group of WeChat users to delay looming U.S. government restrictions that could effectively make the popular app nearly impossible to...

In response to President Trump’s Executive Orders signed August 6, 2020, the Department of Commerce (Commerce) today announced prohibitions on transactions relating to mobile applications (apps) WeChat and TikTok to safeguard the national security of the United States.

The Trump administration issued new rules Friday morning that will cripple the operation of two popular Chinese-owned apps in the United States.

The Commerce Department noted that both apps collect location data, network activity, browsing history and other information about its U.S. users.

Both companies have Chinese owners. One of them has support from Trump-backers.

A glimpse at what the social media platform does in the U.S. underscores that data privacy issues extend beyond China.